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[Photograph 2012.201.B0234.0663]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Daddy's a Hero - Everybody Knows It Now - Little Cassandra Commiskey, 3 years old, watched in wonder Wednesday as President Truman made a national hero of her daddy, Lieut. Henry A. Commiskey, by bestowing a Congressional Medal of Honor on him."
Date: August 1, 1951
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0382]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Only wreckage, Pain Left. Trooper D.R. Stogner, above surveys the damage resulting from a truck-car collision four miles northwest or Moore on SH 74 Friday afternoon. Four persons were injured, one seriously. The truck was driven by Jessie Jack Wilmoth, 28, of 26, NW 11, which pulled off a county road onto SH 74and met a car driven by Jerome Janger, 18, of 800 NE 17. Both men were hurt. Two passengers, below in Janger's ca… more
Date: August 31, 1951
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0241.0334]

Description: Caption: "Edward S. Correta, 212 W Kittyhawk, Midwest City, supervisor in an electrical maintenance unit at Tinker Air Force Base, reached back beyond World War I this week to give the children in the neighborhood a tight wire walking exhibition." Man walks on a tightrope while holding a parasol over his head.
Date: August 17, 1951
Creator: United States. Air Force.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0555]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Colleen Marie Smith and Mrs. Dorothy Jean Thompson survive plunge. Shawnee, Aug. 17-(Special)-Two teen-age Shawnee girls, non-swimmers, escaped possible death here Thursday night after their car plunged off a county bridge into the muddy water of the North Canadian river. The two girls, Colleen Marie Smith, 18, and Mrs. Dorothy Jean Thompson, 16, sisters, crawled through an open window and escaped with only min… more
Date: August 17, 1951
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0295.0180]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Six southeastern Oklahoma beauties will compete for the title of queen of the annual inside-the walls rodeo at Oklahoma State penitentiary September 6-9."
Date: August 25, 1951
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0247.0183]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "All of which give me the general idea the Johnny Creel, his busted wing and his innate sense of humor all were sitting up, taking nourishment through a straw, and had a 50-50 chance of survival."
Date: August 4, 1951
Creator: Petrauskas, Kazimir
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0247.0155]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Feeding a bunch of hungry college students in these days of soaring food costs is a job most people would just as soon pass up."
Date: August 16, 1951
Creator: Peterson, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0245.0003]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Nineteen-year-old Mary Elizabeth Cox of Shawnee, left, made history Tuesday when she became the first young woman to be sworn into the WAVE at the Oklahoma City station."
Date: August 7, 1951
Creator: Peterson, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0383]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Upside Down Cake. Two persons were injured, one seriously, Thursday when a baking company truck (above) collided with a Plymouth sedan at NE 7 and Stiles. Walter Earl McNull, 27, of 425 NE 12, driver of the sedan was charged with failure to yield the right of way. Domald Gene Lindsley, 23, of 4217 N Classen, the truck driver, was taken to Mercy hospital with two fractured legs, a fractured left hip and internal injuries. M… more
Date: August 30, 1951
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0297.0032]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "C. D. Deal, pointing gives wire check instructions to student Stanley Montgomery, Central graduate who will study radio engineering in college this term."
Date: August 30, 1951
Creator: Burns, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0241.0230]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "University of Oklahoma graduates go places. Take a look at Jesse R. Cornett, 1938 graduate with a major in engineering physics, who is here visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Cornett."
Date: August 14, 1951
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0164.0450]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This solemn-looking Cocker with the inquiring gloom in her is eye is Cassandra, Bogi's mother, posing with Cherry, the cat."
Date: August 5, 1951
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0147.0162]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "There's an air of gracious living in this modernly-furnished lining room, given and unusual styling by use of the interior wall matching the exterior, lots of light from all angles."
Date: August 31, 1951
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0147.0161]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The attractive ornamentation in the entrance hall made of metal, fluted glass and graced with plants, is a distinctive touch to the interior which Goff himself constructed."
Date: August 31, 1951
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0147.0159]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The kitchen is a housewife's dream, equipped with dish washer, home freezer, automatic washer and dryer and plenty of cabinets."
Date: August 31, 1951
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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